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Tag Archives: PTSD
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, January 11 to Friday, January 15
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Education: New Sisters High program helps students plan beyond graduation (The Bulletin, Bend, OR) A high school in Sisters, OR has launched a transition program for special education students after a year of … Continue reading
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Tagged Braille tablet, cognitive impairments, diabetes, down syndrome, EsoGlove, IDEA, Mini-Mental State Exam, MMSE, Ottawa 3DY screening tool, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, robotic hand rehabilitation device, software app for diabetes control, special education, transcendental meditation, United States Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, October 5 to Friday, October 9
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Research: Theater training may boost skills in kids with autism (Disability Scoop) Children with autism can see big gains in socialization, communication, and other skills by learning to perform on stage, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety disorders, autism, children's upper limb prostheses, chronic fatigue syndrome, comfort animals, depression, hearing aids, hearing loss, ME/CFS, myalgic encephalomyelitis, Open Bionics, PTSD, robotic finger, theater training and autism, wearable biosensors, women army veterans
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 6 – Friday, July 10
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Arts: How to make a musical for the Deaf (BuzzFeed) Deaf West, a premiere Deaf theater company based in Los Angeles, will be taking the musical Spring Awakening to Broadway this fall. In … Continue reading
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Tagged autism spectrum disorder, blood test for diabetes type 1, brain impairments, caregivers, Deaf West theater company, eye tracker, EyeControl, microRNA 375, neurorehabilitation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, severe disabilities, shared brain-machine interface, sign language, smell test for autism, stroke, Tetris as therapeutic aid, type 1 diabetes, uric acid
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community -April 2015
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, android, Apps, Asian Americans, benefits of recreation, community, cultures, depression, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, European Americans, health, health promotion, Hispanics, Latinos, leisure generated meanings, lesiure, mental health, mental illness, minorities, National Institute on Aging, neurological disabilities, NIA, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, occupational therapy, OT, people with disabilities, physical activity, Positive Activity Jackpot, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychiatric disabilities, psychiatry, psychology, PTSD, recreation therapy, social impact, soldiers, Spanish, Spanish-language, stress, technology, therapeutic recreation, veterans
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, March 16 to Friday, March 20
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Human Interest: Zoo proves transformative for teen with severe disabilities (Disability Scoop) Zinyra was at one time isolated by severe cognitive disabilities, stigmatized by teachers as stubborn and uncooperative, and bullied by classmates. … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessible Technology Initiative, autism, cognitive disabilities, Controlled Substances Act, custom-designed prosthetics, Ed Roberts, human-animal interaction, IT accessibility, King-Devick test, MDMA, personal training for seniors, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, powered wheelchair, prosthetist, PTSD, Quell TENS device, Recaro wheelchair seat, traumatic brain injury, vision test for concussion, wearable TENS device, wheelchair headlight
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, January 12 – Friday, January 16
Human Interest: Heart problems, deafness influenced Beethoven’s music, study says (The Hearing Review) According to researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical compositions might have been affected by both his deafness and … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act, Alzheimer's Disease, Automated Device for Asthma Monitoring (ADAMM), blind students, braille, Braille Challenge, Braille Institute, deaf composer, flexible body worn glucose meter, flexible electronic implant, Off Vertical Axis Rotational Device (OVARD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, SCI, spinal cord injury, stroke, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Day
Beginning in 2010, Congress named June 27th as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Day (S. Res. 455) and, for the last four years during the month of June, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has asked everyone to help them … Continue reading
What are psychiatric disabilities?
Psychiatric disability is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a “mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual; a record of impairment; or being regarded as having such an … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, antisocial personality disorder, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, depersonalization disorder, Disabilities, disability, dissociative disorders, dissociative identity disorder, eating disorders, EEOC, emotional conditions, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, mental health, mental illness, NARIC, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, people with disabilities, personality disorders, phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychiatric disabilities, PTSD, SAMHSA, schizophrenia
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